The body-swap storyline has been a tried and true storytelling device throughout film history, most often being utilized as a way to allow actors to portray characters completely different from what ...

The underwhelming Netflix comedy Family Switch (“A dad joke of a movie,” according to critic Nell Minow) reminds us of two things. First, the appeal of body-swap movies for filmmakers remains undimmed ...

This week brings a sequel 22 years in the making, “Freakier Friday.” The 2003 “Freaky Friday” was itself a remake of a 1976 Disney comedy, and in between, there was a 1995 TV movie version. Along the ...

Tangled director Nathan Greno and Juno Temple tease their new Netflix body-swap movie, Swapped, starring Michael B. Jordan, ...

Most of the best-known body-swapping movies are comedies, and many of those follow the age-gap pattern of Freaky Friday, a 1976 adaptation of the Mary Rodgers’ YA novel where a mother and daughter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Story-wise, it’s been more than two decades since daughter Anna ( Lohan) and mother Tess (Curtis) did that memorable one-day ...

Jeremy Crabb is a film-focused freelance writer for Collider. Growing up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Jeremy first fell in love with cinema in 2005, when he made his first trip to the theater to ...

It’s a Friday you won’t thank God for in this sequel to the 2003 remake reuniting Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. Body swap movies like “Freakier Friday” usually have a maximum of two bodies. One ...

Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple lead a story that's simple to a fault, but the woodland fantasy world is a psychedelic ...

On most lists of “Best Body-Swap Movies,” you’ll find 2003’s Freaky Friday at, or near, the top. And for good reason: Mark Waters’ adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel of the same name might have ...